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Deforestation, Poaching, and White People Created the Man-Eater of Champawat In the first decade of the 20th century, the most prolific serial killer of human life the world has ever seen stalked the foothills of the Himalayas. A serial killer that was not merely content to kidnap victims at night and dismember their bodies, but also insisted on eating their flesh. A serial killer that, for the better part of ten years, eluded police, bounty hunters, assassins, and even an entire regiment of Nepalese Gurkhas. A serial killer that happened to be a Royal Bengal tiger. Specifically, a tiger known...

The tiger gunned down in a wild police chase through suburban Atlanta had escaped unnoticed from an entertainment company truck, authorities said. Feld Entertainment Inc., which produces Disney on Ice and Monster Jam, was transporting the Bengal tiger Wednesday from Florida to Tennessee when the big cat broke free. Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division said that the company was not aware that the animal made a break for it. “The truck had stopped in Georgia during the overnight hours and during that stop, the female Bengal tiger managed to escape unnoticed,” authorities said in a statement.

A dog in northern Germany is once again taking on the role of surrogate parent to a big cat, this time helping rear a pair of rejected Bengal tiger cubs. Leon, a six-year old pointer mix, is helping his owner, zoo keeper Jeannette Wurms, raise one-month old Peach and Pearl at home after the cubs were rejected by their mother at Safaripark Stukenbrock near the town of Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock. “What’s exceptional about (Leon) is that he is a male with such motherly instincts which are very marked,” Wurms, who hand feeds the cubs, said on Monday. “He also acts as...

Odin, a white Bengal tiger, swims with his eyes wide open as he dives under water for a piece of meat at Odin's Temple of the Tiger exhibit at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, California, on July 23, 2009. In the wild, all of the big cat species will will dive under water to get its prey or just cool off.

Mummy, where are my stripes? Pure white Bengal tiger astonishes keepers By Daily Mail Reporter 06th July 2009 A beautiful rare snow white Bengal tiger doesn't have to earn her stripes because she was born without them. [Pic in URL] The playful six-month-old cub called Fareeda is so unusual none of her kind exist in the wild today and she is the first-ever to be born in Africa. Her parents Geena and Shiva are both white Bengal tigers and carry the gene for white colouring. Enlarge Fareeda is a snow white tiger cub who only has stripe markings on her...

Baby tiger's birth adds to rare species   Last Edited: Friday, 09 Mar 2007, 7:41 PM EST Created: Friday, 09 Mar 2007, 6:54 PM EST     A rare tabby tiger has been born in Polk County. Related Items Videos DAVENPORT - Sounds of life fill the air at Horseshoe Creek Wildlife Foundation.  Spring is dawning, and that means babies being born.All the births are a joy for Horseshoe Creek founder Darryl Atkinson. "It's like being a father all over again.  I can't explain -- they are my children," Atkinson said.   He is especially thrilled by the recent birth...